Debloat AI · B2C · face debloating app
Build the app for what TikTok commenters keep asking 'how?' about
40,000 downloads with little effort; app sold
What they did
What happened
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Rafael Kramer - this 14 yr old makes $100k/mo PROFIT building apps with ai (here's how)
Joseph Choisolutions. That's an interesting category. Would you say that this is a good way to do ideation for apps still, like look at popular like e-commerce categories and then making apps for those?
Rafael KramerI I mean, I didn't necessarily uh find it through the looking at it through an e-commerce lens. I kind of just saw it as like a problem that people wanted to have solved. Like, people were obviously concerned with how bloated they were on TikTok, and if you would go into the comment section, which is a really good indicator of how strong a problem is, you would see people saying like, "How do I debloat?" Like, if you would see a transformation video of a guy be like bloated before and then not bloated after, there would be like 100 people in the comments asking, "How? How? How?" right?
Joseph ChoiThat makes sense. And then when you made your content, you're doing UGC accounts, you said. Um it looks like this account was like slides, um was it mainly slides content or did you also do like face content?
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Tags: tiktok, comment-mining, idea-sourcing, looksmaxxing